Senior Backend Engineer, Liquidity Platform

Airwallex
Singapore
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration"]

Build and own backend services for a liquidity management platform that helps ensure funds are available across entities, accounts, and currencies. Design scalable systems for liquidity forecasting, safeguarding compliance, investment workflows, and cash data management, while improving visibility through data pipelines and analytics. Work on high-integrity distributed systems using microservices, event-driven workflows, Kafka, gRPC, REST, and SQL/NoSQL, with strong focus on controls, observability, testing, and operational excellence.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
2 months ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Liquidity Platform

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Job Summary

Build and own backend services for a liquidity management platform that helps ensure funds are available across entities, accounts, and currencies. Design scalable systems for liquidity forecasting, safeguarding compliance, investment workflows, and cash data management, while improving visibility through data pipelines and analytics. Work on high-integrity distributed systems using microservices, event-driven workflows, Kafka, gRPC, REST, and SQL/NoSQL, with strong focus on controls, observability, testing, and operational excellence.
Location: Singapore
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and own backend services for global liquidity management, safeguarding, investment workflows, and cash data management.
  • •Develop systems that ensure funds are available in the right entities, accounts, and currencies to support global operations reliably.
  • •Build scalable platforms for liquidity forecasting, cash positioning, internal fund movement, funding optimisation, and decision-making.
  • •Contribute to safeguarding compliance infrastructure including regulatory reporting support, segregation of funds, reconciliation, and controls.
  • •Work end-to-end on features (design through implementation, automated testing, deployment, observability, and runbooks) and collaborate with product and finance/legal/compliance stakeholders on reliable APIs and workflows.

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years building and operating backend systems in production.
  • •Strong programming experience in JVM languages (e.g. Kotlin, Java) and willingness to work primarily in the JVM ecosystem.
  • •Solid distributed systems fundamentals, including concurrency, data consistency, idempotency, retries/backoff, and failure-mode handling.
  • •Experience designing REST and/or gRPC APIs and persistence layers using relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and/or key-value stores.
  • •Proficiency with event-driven architectures and message brokers/streams (e.g. Kafka) plus strong testing and observability practices.
Experience:5+ yearsFintechPaymentsTreasuryBanking
Skills:CommunicationCollaboration
Tech Stack:JavaKotlinJVMMicroservicesEvent-driven architectureKafkaGRPCREST APIsSQLNoSQLPostgreSQLCI/CDMetricsLoggingTracingUnit testsIntegration testsContract tests

Company Brief

Airwallex
Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform that provides business accounts, cross-border payments, treasury, corporate cards, and embedded finance APIs to help companies manage global financial operations and scale internationally.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2015
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